The Doctors' Syndicate said Monday it will hold protests on March 12 and 19 to condemn assaults by security personnel against medical workers over the past few weeks.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi highlighted in a phone conversation on Monday that the fight against terrorists should continue not only in Syria but also in Libya and Yemen, the Kremlin said in a statement.

Egypt's top prosecutor referred a policeman to trial on Saturday on accusation of fabricating drug charges in an incident that occurred in November, a judicial source said.

Egyptian student Emad Al-Sayed, who was detained in the United States on charges related to putative threats levelled against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, will return to Egypt within 10 days.

Egypt’s parliament could review the interior ministry’s draft laws regulating police treatment of citizens this week, Interior Minister Magdy Abdel-Ghafar told state news agency MENA.

For the first time, Egypt has allocated a vehicle manufacturing line to produce British double-decker buses for the British market, Youm7 reported Sunday.

Germany's Transport Ministry is to send a transport security delegation to Hurghada International Airport this month to inspect measures taken to protect German tourists and aircraft bound for Germany, according to Red Sea security sources.

Egypt and France began Sunday the Ramses 2016 joint military air and naval exercises in the Mediterranean, according to a statement from the Egyptian Ministry of Defense.

Some 31.5 percent of produced drinking water is lost to “decaying and outdated water networks,” according to a report issued by Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) Sunday.

Egyptian business tycoon Nassef Sawiris is the wealthiest person in Egypt, ranking 421 among the world’s richest with $4.2 billion, according to a Thursday report by Forbes.

The Egyptian Doctors' Syndicate referred the health minister to investigation before the syndicate's disciplinary board for professional ethics over remarks he had made that are “offensive to doctors,” according to a statement published on their website on Tuesday.

Al-Dostour Party board member in Ismailia, Mahmoud Abdelazeem, was arrested on 29 February, the party announced in an official statement Wednesday

The Ministry of Antiquities is preparing the required files to have four archaeological sites in Alexandria and Sinai added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List.

Al-Faraeen channel said Wednesday that it will freeze its activities and offer itself for sale after its chairman Tawfiq Okasha was stripped of his parliamentary membership for hosting the Israeli ambassador to Egypt at his home.

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi arrived in South Korea after leaving Japan on Wednesday. South Korea is the president's last stop on his week-long Asia tour.

The government is reviewing on Wednesday a final version of the draft police law it approved last week before sending it to the State Council.

Head of the Egyptian Forensic Department Hisham Abdel Hamid denied Wednesday recent media news quoted him saying that slain Italian student Giulio Regeni had been tortured for seven days, Al Masry Al Youm reported.

Egypt will double its natural gas production by the second quarter of 2017 as a result of 2015's discoveries, Prime Minster Sherif Ismail said on Tuesday.

Defence lawyers of jailed journalist and novelist Ahmed Nagy filed a plea Tuesday to suspend the sentence of imprisonment until an appeal against the verdict is reviewed by the court.

Egypt’s doctors syndicate issued an official summon on Tuesday for Health Minister Ahmed Emad to be questioned by a disciplinary committee for “statements insulting all Egyptian doctors.”

The leader of the April 6 Youth Movement, Amr Ali was sentenced to three years in prison by an Egyptian court on Monday.